Quotes about Growth
The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.
— Lisa Bevere
Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.
— Lisa Bevere
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
— Teresa of Avila
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
— George Muller
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.
— Dallas Willard
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
— Eugene Peterson
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
— Francis de Sales
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
— Athanasius of Alexandria
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.
— Wayne Dyer
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
— Marianne Williamson
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
— AW Tozer
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
— Arthur Conan Doyle